Risk management-Technical questions
Market risk
- VaR
- How many approaches are there to calculate VAR? What’s the assumption and weakness of these approaches?
oDelta-gamma approach
oHistorical simulation
oMonte Carlo simulation
- How to sample the variable from the stochastic process?
- How to get μ and σ?---from historical data
- Given two columns of market data, please use SAS, EVIEWS or MINITAB to calculate ß? Using two methods.
- Given the risk matrix of a derivative, for example, foreign currency swap, how to calculate the VAR? What factors will you consider when calculating VAR?
oForeign interest rate
oForeign exchange rate
oHorizon
oConfidence interval
Credit risk
- The drivers of credit risk
- How to measure credit risk?
- Credit Default Swap (CDS): definition; how to value (three methods)
oCredit spread: spread between treasury bill and corporate bond
oMarket price: Merton model
- CDO (Collateral debt obligation)
- Credit VaR
- Merton model
- CreditMetrics
Interest rate derivatives
- How to value interest rate derivatives? What’s the assumption and weakness of these models?
- Trinomial tree: the tree-building procedure
- Standard method: variants of Black’s model
- Model of short rate:
oNo-arbitrage model: Hoo-Lee; Hull-White
oHow to use Hull-White to value interest rate derivatives
- HJM/ Libor market model
Basel Accord
- Main content of Basel Accord II?
- How many approaches do commercial banks can use in calculate credit risk charge?
oInternal rating approach
oAdvanced internal rating approach
- What’s the assumption of IRP?
Other
- Exotic option: Barrier option/ Asian option/ Bermuda option
- European option/ American option
- Under which circumstance that the American option has the same value as European option
- If interest rate increases, how does the values of call/ or put option change?
- If the volatility increase, how does the values of call/ put option change?
- Interest rate swap: how to value?
- Interest rate forward: how to value?
- Taylor expansion
- Duration/ convexity
- Greek letters
- Cap/ Caplet
- How to calculate forward rate: given two spot rates



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